Electronic Transmission of Prescriptions - An Evaluation of the Technical Models Used in the English ETP Pilots 2002

This article describes Electronic Democracy as an emergent statecraft model.Electronic Democracy is analyzed from a theoretical perspective that proposes edemocracy as the new millennium democratic system. In order to achieve thisgoal, an e-government concept was required. It is proposed that ElectronicGovernment is presented as the appropriate environment to originate a newrole model for managing the public engine: e-democracy. In this particular case, the analyzes focuses on the most important democracy theories – ClassicDemocracy and Radical Democracy – intending to demonstrate that Electronic Government contains the democracy ideals from both of these theories. Al-though E-democracy is shown to provide solutions to many social problems,some drawbacks are also discussed. Finally, as a result of this analysis, theways in which Electronic Government can help the Information Society to be-come more and more democratic is described.